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llANCROVE AND SALTMARSH VECETATIOX NEAR SYDNEY, N.S.W. 



Plate xxix. 

 Photo S. Avicennia officinalis (tree) and low bushes of Aegiceras majus near 

 mouth of Cabbage Tree Creek, Port Hacking. Note horizontal roots 

 bearing pneumatophores uncovered by action of tides. Outskirts of 

 encroaching sand are seen to the left. 

 „ 9. Avicennia officinalis and Aegiceras majiis being buried in drift sand. 

 Dwarf Avicennia in right middle distance. Cabbage Tree Creek, Port 

 Hacking. 



Plate XXX. 



Photo 11. Group of old trees of Avicennia ojficinalis near mouth of Cabbage Tree 

 Creek, Port Hacking. Note pneumatophores and dwarf Avicennia be- 

 neath trees. Foreground occupied by sward of Sat/tolus repeiis with a 

 few clumps of Juncus inaritimus Right foreground shows bush of 

 Aegiceras iiiajus. 



Photo 12. Dwarf growth of Avicennia officinalis. Saiiwliis repeus in foreground. 



Plate xxxi. 



Photo 13. Juncetum (Juncus 7nariti»ius) 

 advancing upon Salicornietum 

 „ 14. Band of Juncus maritiiuus 

 limits of mangrove. 

 Avicennia officinalis on right 

 majus in middle distance. 



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Photo 15. Juncetum with old decaying 

 Tree Creek. Mangrove "inlier" 

 „ 10. Mangrove "inlier" Aviceniiia 

 Ground vegetation of Salicorn 



with group of young Casuarina glauca 

 at Cabbage Tree Creek, Port Hacking, 

 passing through Salicornietum to inner 



foregroimd and regular line of .legiceras 



trunks of Casuarina glauca at Cabbage 



in right background. 



at Cabbage Tree Creek, Port Hacking. 

 ia, Saiiiolus and Sporodolus. 



